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Super Cauldron

 Wed Nov 01 10:59:21 +0000 2023

Or, hear me out, it's a recognized protest symbol. You might have also known that already.

 Wed Nov 01 13:21:04 +0000 2023

🤔🤷

 Wed Nov 01 13:32:44 +0000 2023

Happy 40th anniversary to the announcement of IBM's famous flop, the IBM PCjr! 🎉🎂🎈🍾🥂

 Wed Nov 01 13:52:22 +0000 2023

Russia adopted a Z as a sign of war against Ukraine.

 Wed Nov 01 14:14:49 +0000 2023

Exactly. And that's a event that's been going on for two years currently, not something from 23 years ago.

 Wed Nov 01 14:18:34 +0000 2023

RT @MobyGamer: Happy 40th Anniversary to the IBM PCjr, which was announced on November 1st, 1983. To celebrate, I've released the first vi…

 Wed Nov 01 14:49:29 +0000 2023

Easy for me. I've decided all the way back in March.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1637895039245246470?t=PzKZQ8ybq2ctd0l_8cnRMw&s=19

 Wed Nov 01 15:03:59 +0000 2023

RT @Mattias_G: dos-like, a game engine for making games with a MS-DOS look and feel
https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/dos-like

 Wed Nov 01 15:49:35 +0000 2023

Probably

 Wed Nov 01 15:52:48 +0000 2023

Just realized that now I've been on my current job longer than my previous job, and I'm really not hating it. That's a pretty big change. At least that's one positive thing these days. 🤷

 Wed Nov 01 17:27:03 +0000 2023

My tweet was sarcastic.

 Wed Nov 01 23:08:26 +0000 2023

I'll take a cat over a any car any day. No need for Magic The Gathering either.

 Wed Nov 01 23:14:53 +0000 2023

The Collection Chamber put up all three Blair Witch PC games pre-patched to function on a modern Windows system:
https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2023/10/monthly-5-october-2023.html

 Thu Nov 02 02:21:47 +0000 2023

What other demo?

 Thu Nov 02 12:33:35 +0000 2023

No, the first person was right. IBM contacted Microsoft to develop an OS for their upcoming IBM PC 5150 after Digital Research passed on the offer.
Microsoft bought 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products.
Microsoft developed it into IBM PC DOS, which they licensed to IBM.

 Thu Nov 02 14:01:32 +0000 2023

Psst: it's actually the past

 Thu Nov 02 14:08:31 +0000 2023

RT @retrosuperhwy: Got a sweet new wall clock for my office! From http://retrofied.uk in case you want to to check it out. https://t.co…

 Thu Nov 02 14:33:35 +0000 2023

Well, in reality he managed not to fumble the ball where others did several times. Yes, it's luck and being in the right place at the right time. Yet IBM *brought* the deal to Gary Kildall first, and he passed on it. His later business strategies would also be losing.

 Thu Nov 02 14:40:08 +0000 2023

You'd think after two weeks of every retro media engagement farming blue check account posting the same "Are you this old? *pic of Windows XP*" meme Twitter would run out of users to reply "I remember MS-DOS!,"' to all of term, but no, we're not there yet.

 Thu Nov 02 14:49:53 +0000 2023

eXoDOS Version 6.0 is out.
https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html

 Thu Nov 02 15:18:11 +0000 2023

RT @Gammitin: Some of my favourite DOS games, hours, days and weeks of fun!

 Thu Nov 02 15:24:36 +0000 2023

Big Bang (Psycore, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Nov 02 16:13:43 +0000 2023

Donnie Darko
Amadeus
Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
Apocalypse Now (both Redux and Final)
The Warriors
Mallrats
Battle Royale
Cinema Paradiso
and Star Wars/E.T./Close Encounters (Special Edition)

 Thu Nov 02 18:01:21 +0000 2023

Oh, and the 2003 version of Alien.

 Thu Nov 02 18:07:31 +0000 2023

Some PC prices from 30 years ago (November 1993).
$1 back then is $2.11 today.

 Thu Nov 02 18:33:18 +0000 2023

Cold Blooded (Windows 3.x, CANCELLED) #NotDOS https://x.com/Pikointeractive/status/1720143905373511964

 Thu Nov 02 19:00:35 +0000 2023

No, it's shorter than Redux. It's 182 minutes.

 Thu Nov 02 20:10:42 +0000 2023

RT @ScummVM: Announcing testing for two games, Kingdom: The Far Reaches and Escape From Hell

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20231102/ https://t.co/njdaywNu…

 Thu Nov 02 23:26:04 +0000 2023

Dude, I wish.

 Thu Nov 02 23:34:50 +0000 2023

Very articulated meows. 👍

 Thu Nov 02 23:42:31 +0000 2023

Looks like someone hasn't seen Tony Scott's Man on Fire.

 Fri Nov 03 00:36:43 +0000 2023

Sam Lake knew he was writing a deliberately trashy noir-lite game, and cleverly and ironically leaned into certain elements elevating the whole thing. Rockstar were betting on a "serious" straight drama they were ripping off from Tony Scott's Man on Fire. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1452842987067691015

 Fri Nov 03 00:44:51 +0000 2023

And that's why I always shed a tear at the end of Max Paune 2. Max Payne 3 just makes me groan and roll my eyes throughout.

 Fri Nov 03 00:46:21 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Me, a software preservation enthusiast

 Fri Nov 03 00:49:14 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Fri Nov 03 00:52:52 +0000 2023

It's a different character.

 Fri Nov 03 01:04:21 +0000 2023

 Fri Nov 03 03:17:16 +0000 2023

No idea, but I'm gonna guess it's not up yet

 Fri Nov 03 12:57:34 +0000 2023

RT @philscomputerlb: Made a DOS Boot Floppy to install DOS, boot menu, CD-ROM, mouse and sound within a minute or two: https://t.co/kOtDDB1…

 Fri Nov 03 13:02:48 +0000 2023

They often do when it's appropriate. This one is by the "Ekran" studio in Moscow, so it's pretty Soviet.

 Fri Nov 03 13:11:24 +0000 2023

What Disney cartoon westerns are we taking about here?

 Fri Nov 03 13:15:53 +0000 2023

My first 3D card because back in the day it was all I could afford. 😂 https://x.com/philscomputerlb/status/1720426619658203377

 Fri Nov 03 13:23:55 +0000 2023

This might sound crazy, but I was fully content with playing some games in single digit fps. The alternative was often not being able to play them at all, so 🤷

 Fri Nov 03 13:25:15 +0000 2023

I'm talking about games that required Direct3D here. The card performed really well in DOS games.

 Fri Nov 03 13:27:34 +0000 2023

I feel like I could confidently make a videogame out of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. 🍊

 Fri Nov 03 14:23:29 +0000 2023

3D beat em up

 Fri Nov 03 14:35:40 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1720449670856552826?t=QAcuNGxzi98DjRw5evaZAA&s=19

 Fri Nov 03 14:36:00 +0000 2023

It also sets up the idea of the queen instead of it being a surprise. Autoguns are cool, but they are just there to explain why we're not seeing hundreds of aliens by the end of the film, something I've never once wondered while watching the theatrical cut.

 Fri Nov 03 14:45:16 +0000 2023

I was thinking along the lines Rockstar's The Warriors game that everyone forgot.

 Fri Nov 03 14:46:16 +0000 2023

That's because it's a puzzle.

 Fri Nov 03 14:55:45 +0000 2023

I struggled on my fist playthrough, but on repeats I've realized that there's a trick to each of the sections.

 Fri Nov 03 15:02:32 +0000 2023

It's not a penis statue, but a VERY IMPORTANT WORK OF ART.

 Fri Nov 03 15:11:00 +0000 2023

It was actually released twice on PC. Separate DOS and Windows releases. Good, but the video is interlaced.

 Fri Nov 03 17:11:23 +0000 2023

And that's why the French pronounce Putin as Poutine.

 Fri Nov 03 17:34:33 +0000 2023

RT @romero: In addition to SIGIL II (http://romero.com), I've got some other great news to celebrate DOOM's 30th Anniversary. Join me…

 Fri Nov 03 18:26:43 +0000 2023

Were Japanese always crazy about body horror stuff, or was John Carpenter's The Thing just a massive influence over there?

 Fri Nov 03 20:25:48 +0000 2023

Am I supposed to take away something from this?

 Fri Nov 03 22:36:07 +0000 2023

I get that war stuff can be classified as body horror, but that's not really what I was talking about. Japan has tons of media in the sci-fi/horror genre that is very The Thing-like.

 Fri Nov 03 23:10:34 +0000 2023

Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive
(Sadly works only if your Twitter archive is under 2 gigs, which mine isn't. But maybe it'll be helpful to some of you.)
https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

 Sat Nov 04 00:39:40 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: We have to be careful. This is an emergency area. 🦙🔊🎵

 Sat Nov 04 14:30:18 +0000 2023

No. Nobody from the original team (not the writer, director, cinematographer, not even the composer) was involved in any of the sequels, and it shows. Robocop 2 can be good 80s trashy fun, but it doesn't measure up to even a bit of the original film.

 Sat Nov 04 17:13:32 +0000 2023

RT @Pixelmusement: New episode of Ancient DOS Games uploaded and ready to watch! https://youtu.be/tIQtO3Wq9Ss

 Sat Nov 04 17:43:36 +0000 2023

There's no animation of fire in that one level in the NES version either.

 Sat Nov 04 17:44:38 +0000 2023

Even better to have a demo *in* the sphere in its native 16000x16000 resolution.

 Sat Nov 04 17:46:56 +0000 2023

One of my biggest gripes with 2 that I even caught when I was a kid, but couldn't verbalize till I was much older is that the satire is reversed. Thanks to Frank Miller.

 Sat Nov 04 18:05:55 +0000 2023

RT @Scarfulhu: 🧜‍♂️ NEW VIDEO 🧜‍♂️

King Graham returns for an adventure of the heart! But how does it fare against its genre defining pred…

 Sat Nov 04 18:26:20 +0000 2023

You dug up a year old tweet for this?

 Sat Nov 04 18:59:17 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: So no, I don't want your number
No, I don't want to give you mine and
No, I don't want to meet you nowhere
No, I don't wa…

 Sat Nov 04 19:03:29 +0000 2023

Amazing. 👍

 Sat Nov 04 19:05:25 +0000 2023

Well, it looks like Microsoft Word and Microsoft Mouse are both 40 years old now.

 Sat Nov 04 20:00:40 +0000 2023

RT @deater78: just released at demosplash demoparty, Second Reality for the Apple II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNOqu4vcDto

 Sat Nov 04 23:20:08 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: I know the story of Gary Kildall being out flying a plane when IBM came knocking is what most people know, but in reality…

 Sat Nov 04 23:23:27 +0000 2023

Not sure how to feel about this new MobyGames feature

 Sat Nov 04 23:29:57 +0000 2023

It also converts and displays uploaded PNGs and GIFs to Jpeg, which makes A TON of difference given the resolution.

 Sat Nov 04 23:54:09 +0000 2023

🎨🖌🤔

 Sun Nov 05 00:44:42 +0000 2023

Me when it turns out that it wasn't better on the Amiga:

 Sun Nov 05 01:25:57 +0000 2023

William Soleau! https://x.com/AGHotspot/status/1720852282047160387

 Sun Nov 05 03:06:52 +0000 2023

They always had it, it was just moved to the right mouse button function of the eraser in Windows 95 and up.

 Sun Nov 05 12:52:42 +0000 2023

Good morning, East Coast.

 Sun Nov 05 12:56:24 +0000 2023

We know when TR came out because of ads, reviews, and press releases. In case of PC games, files on physical media are dated.
EIDOS acquired Core in April of 1996, before the game came out, when they bought CentreGold, a company that owned Core since 1994.

Ad from September 96:

 Sun Nov 05 13:17:07 +0000 2023

Pretty cool. A document for plans for DOS 2 when Microsoft was still thinking that Xenix would actually be the more successful OS, and wanted to join the two into a Unix-DOS networkable (TCP/IP) thing.

Funny how things turned out completely differently. https://x.com/stevesi/status/1720701036061688053

 Sun Nov 05 13:52:33 +0000 2023

RT @high_voltage_cz: Eric the Swift, Olaf the Stout, Baleog the Fierce! #TheLostVikings #dosgaming

 Sun Nov 05 13:52:40 +0000 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_OPL

 Sun Nov 05 13:58:18 +0000 2023

In the early days of home computers nobody knew what the market was or was going to be. Including everyone that ended up dominating that market.

 Sun Nov 05 14:02:16 +0000 2023

"Software firms back PC-DOS as 16-bit standard."

 Sun Nov 05 14:10:50 +0000 2023

And this is why I want to be a cat.

 Sun Nov 05 14:12:59 +0000 2023

Didn't realize that yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of the release of John Carpenter's They Live. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1221675015512428544

 Sun Nov 05 16:14:09 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1596324533400924160

 Sun Nov 05 16:14:50 +0000 2023

- Mom, can we get Ultima 7?
- 我们家里有Ultima 7。

 Sun Nov 05 17:08:30 +0000 2023

Listen, if anyone ever told me that they think that RoboCop 2 is better than the first I would legitimately stop talking to them for the rest of my life.

 Sun Nov 05 17:27:41 +0000 2023

Ice Cream (ISO, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Nov 05 18:37:32 +0000 2023

No, in fact I speak fluent Chinese!
Of course I used a translator.

 Sun Nov 05 18:44:54 +0000 2023

RT @furan: Today on This Old Computer: using an FPGA and the VGA feature connector to overlay the palette on screen. No software is involve…

 Sun Nov 05 20:31:16 +0000 2023

Whoever is the owner of the white sedan, you left your lights on.

 Sun Nov 05 22:20:42 +0000 2023

RT @MechanicJay: All set up with my luggable design station, ready to start my new career as a mobile architect. #Msdos #luggableComputin…

 Mon Nov 06 00:00:00 +0000 2023

One of the greatest moments in all of American cinema.

 Mon Nov 06 01:14:53 +0000 2023

Somebody please give Sam Raimi a non-franchise movie to make. I miss the days when the man made actual fun stuff.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1549577854802862081

 Mon Nov 06 01:18:11 +0000 2023

RT @gstdaisuki: isn't it weird how newer games manage to look more realistic than older ones?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1zyy3_Zux4

 Mon Nov 06 02:31:55 +0000 2023

RT @MobyGamer: This is good coverage of a DOS browser that works very well, and Al provides workarounds for sites that require encryption.

 Mon Nov 06 03:28:51 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Remember, remember the fifth... oh fuck it. Good night.

 Mon Nov 06 03:38:15 +0000 2023

Are you okay? There are news reports of the EIDOS purchase and of the game's release in magazines and newspapers you can look up. Is there actually *anything* out there that supports what you're saying besides your own imagination?

 Mon Nov 06 16:20:02 +0000 2023

Did you not see the EIDOS logo in the ad that I provided along with words "coming soon"? Do you want me to link you to magazine issues where this ad appeared? Will any of that convince you, or you've just decided to not exist in reality?

 Mon Nov 06 16:21:43 +0000 2023

Recent amazing gamer encounter:
A person who believes that Tomb Raider's release date is a fabrication:

 Mon Nov 06 16:27:39 +0000 2023

For the record: EIDOS owned Core from before Tomb Raider came out. In April of 1996 EIDOS bought CentreGold, a company that owned Core and US Gold.

 Mon Nov 06 16:30:33 +0000 2023

I think they're insinuating that they were also there by saying "at the time we wondered what platform it was developed on" which is once again weird because the only platform to develop it on would be the PC, as seen in some development shots on Core's website. 🤷

 Mon Nov 06 16:38:49 +0000 2023

Ah, good to know. Thanks. 👍

 Mon Nov 06 16:39:28 +0000 2023

I guess this is how conspiracy theories work. You pick one thesis that goes against (accepted) reality, in this case it's "EIDOS bought Core after TR became a hit," and everything else just automatically falls apart because none of the other pieces connect without it anymore.

 Mon Nov 06 16:42:49 +0000 2023

November 6th of 1980 Microsoft signed a deal with IBM to develop an operating system for IBM's upcoming IBM PC.

 Mon Nov 06 17:53:14 +0000 2023

No, there's more. Read the other two screenshots.

 Mon Nov 06 18:10:15 +0000 2023

RT @HiddenAsbestos: Celebrating that one explosion sprite used by every mid 90s game.

#dosgaming

https://youtu.be/XNxy_RbXRVE https://t.co/HKb…

 Mon Nov 06 18:31:59 +0000 2023

Fuck, I really want to make a game again. But I have so little energy these days I feel like I should be channeling what little I have into something that I'm more or less guaranteed to finish, like internet videos. 😔

 Mon Nov 06 18:54:02 +0000 2023

Why?

 Mon Nov 06 19:14:31 +0000 2023

I get it, but I have made games in the past. My current issue is absence of time/energy/resources which is a bit too personal for a YouTube video to address.

 Mon Nov 06 19:26:45 +0000 2023

It's funny to see actual people who were celebrated as Gamedev Rockstars in the 90s and realize that all of them were just your regular massive nerds, and the edgiest thing they've done is maybe listen to some metal albums. 😄

 Mon Nov 06 21:13:51 +0000 2023

90s gaming magazine: [moody dutch angle photos of bespectacled developers in leather jackets] Check out these bad boys of the games industry! They own RAC CARS, and every Friday they play D&D with PIZZA and DIET COKE.
Kid me: Whoa, that's hardcore!

 Mon Nov 06 21:19:08 +0000 2023

I read that shit when it came out.

 Mon Nov 06 21:23:11 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: WipEout overdose print ads. #DOSGaming

 Mon Nov 06 22:05:25 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: 90s ads, man. #DOSGaming

 Mon Nov 06 22:05:57 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Some of Command & Conquer ads still remained pretty weird, even after all of this

 Mon Nov 06 22:06:46 +0000 2023

 Mon Nov 06 22:42:05 +0000 2023

Yes. FOURTEEN years ago.

 Tue Nov 07 00:31:40 +0000 2023

Hold me closer, tiny dancer.

 Tue Nov 07 03:52:02 +0000 2023

Ok, let's try that:
B - 66
i - 105
l - 108
l - 108
- 32
G - 71
a - 97
t - 116
e - 101
s - 115
- 32
I - 73
I - 73
I - 73

Total: 1170

 Tue Nov 07 12:44:36 +0000 2023

Windows 95
87 105 110 100 111 119 115 32 57 53 889
Total = 889

MS-DOS 6.21
77 83 45 68 79 83 32 54 46 50 49
Total = 666

Hmmm... 1170, 889, 666.... Don't really see a pattern there. 🤷‍♂️

 Tue Nov 07 12:47:10 +0000 2023

Bill Gates never assisted in development of CP/M.

 Tue Nov 07 14:26:01 +0000 2023

Tim Paterson, the creator of MS-DOS, wrote this about his Microsoft shares, which he got in addition to $75,000 when he joined the company, in 1997:

 Tue Nov 07 14:55:48 +0000 2023

RT @MobyGamer: Computer cat establishes dominance over the wild 5150.

 Tue Nov 07 15:01:47 +0000 2023

69 Nights at Spready's

 Tue Nov 07 15:19:14 +0000 2023

The originator got $30 mil worth of shares in addition to $75,000 of "almost nothing".

 Tue Nov 07 16:20:45 +0000 2023

More like The Escapiss, amirite?

 Tue Nov 07 18:17:23 +0000 2023

Listen, if you want hot takes that I've spent more than 2 seconds on, you're in the wrong place. 🤷

 Tue Nov 07 18:19:29 +0000 2023

If I can chime in for a sec, the guy you're replying to is the owner of Keen Dreams, and he's also an unhinged nazi prick. Something to keep in mind when paying for Keen Dreams.
(I've got receipts, if needed, but usually a quick timeline check of his account will do.)

 Tue Nov 07 19:09:19 +0000 2023

Yo, if you're gonna talk about how ASCII codes of "Bill Gates III" or "William Gates III" add up to 666 maybe you should, idk, try actually doing that before you post. 🤷

 Tue Nov 07 19:22:09 +0000 2023

The only way ASCII codes of "Windows 95" would add up to 666 is if every letter was capitalized, and you didn't count the space.

 Tue Nov 07 19:26:18 +0000 2023

ASCII codes of "MS-DOS 6.21" do in fact add up to 666. Since that version is obviously satanic, may I suggest sticking to 5.0 or 6.22 instead? Problem solved.

 Tue Nov 07 19:27:43 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: "Believe it or not, the above scenario is now a reality..."

 Tue Nov 07 22:16:02 +0000 2023

Occasionally Ebert managed to foil him though
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1030973507138727936?t=UMXmUXr0g0w0g6bjGp8dBA&s=19

 Tue Nov 07 22:35:11 +0000 2023

It's dinner time!

 Wed Nov 08 01:26:16 +0000 2023

They've said worse to each other off camera. But they were still buds.

 Wed Nov 08 01:35:05 +0000 2023

It was

 Wed Nov 08 13:06:58 +0000 2023

RT @stenagovorit:

 Wed Nov 08 14:14:44 +0000 2023

Correct

 Wed Nov 08 14:21:56 +0000 2023

With apparent success of Gobliiins 5 Pierre Gilhodes had announced that a crowdfunding campaign for Gobliins 6 is coming early next year.

 Wed Nov 08 16:56:39 +0000 2023

And seeing how there are only two i's in the title I'm hoping to see Fingus and Winkle back in action again.

 Wed Nov 08 17:00:36 +0000 2023

RT @ConvosCurtis: 💀 Are you ready for the biggest Phantasmagoria reunion EVER!

👻 This Friday, Roberta Williams, Victoria Morsell (Adrienne…

 Wed Nov 08 17:43:47 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Evergreen mood

 Wed Nov 08 17:44:26 +0000 2023

There indeed was a 5. Just a few months ago.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1653389525442527238?t=quIMVmCLnKjmpHDWehwlAA&s=19

 Wed Nov 08 17:57:20 +0000 2023

MS-DOS 6.21
Obviously if version 6.21 is satanic, one can use 5.0 or 6.22, and there's no problem anymore, right?

 Wed Nov 08 17:59:00 +0000 2023

Here we go again https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/755937724511744001

 Wed Nov 08 19:32:25 +0000 2023

It's Bill Murray. He hates everything.

 Wed Nov 08 19:45:07 +0000 2023

Yes. 👍

 Wed Nov 08 20:14:28 +0000 2023

Yes, I have played Commander Keen.

 Wed Nov 08 20:35:30 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Yes, give me those sweet Indeo® DLLs

 Wed Nov 08 22:54:43 +0000 2023

This should be bigger news. Legendary game designer, only 50 copies sold, first (known) computer game to have been packaged in a box: https://x.com/A2_Canada/status/1714750476015599776

 Wed Nov 08 23:51:27 +0000 2023

Actually Microsoft sold the most popular home version of Unix in the 80s. It was called Xenix. However, people chose MS-DOS over it, so by the 90s Microsoft gave up on Xenix completely.

 Wed Nov 08 23:57:40 +0000 2023

Maybe, but it's not as cool as Borland's car dash
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/930962588179058688

 Thu Nov 09 00:00:59 +0000 2023

First boxed game was Doom.

 Thu Nov 09 00:48:26 +0000 2023

It's dinner time!

 Thu Nov 09 01:24:35 +0000 2023

Me every time I see "Dune 2" trending

 Thu Nov 09 01:48:56 +0000 2023

RT @high_voltage_cz: Kolují nějaké zvěsti o dalším díle série, vhodná chvilka připomenout si začátek :) #GTA

 Thu Nov 09 12:41:24 +0000 2023

They might take you up on it
https://x.com/LasVegasSun/status/1722355385254793440?t=TdEbJ_zYFSPRxYuyH2H14Q&s=19

 Thu Nov 09 12:46:25 +0000 2023

RT @game_obscure: Azrael’s Tear (1996)

Developed by Intelligent Games.

 Thu Nov 09 12:49:10 +0000 2023

DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt.
https://github.com/haileys/doslinux

 Thu Nov 09 14:10:29 +0000 2023

Something isn't right. Use nGlide, double check your settings. Here's mine:

 Thu Nov 09 14:41:47 +0000 2023

Actually, scratch that. Download the full rip from the first link here. It's pre-configured, and comes with multiple batch files that let you configure what's important and pick the version of nGlide that works best for you out of 5:
https://www.old-games.ru/game/download/4527.html

 Thu Nov 09 15:07:09 +0000 2023

I appreciate it.

 Thu Nov 09 15:28:55 +0000 2023

RT @MsDOSClub: Enseñando hardware y software clásico a la chavalería.

 Thu Nov 09 16:01:30 +0000 2023

Conflict (Mastertronic/16-Blitz, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Nov 09 16:36:56 +0000 2023

"Conflict" cover art by Simon Bisley

 Thu Nov 09 16:38:15 +0000 2023

Some do
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/796776998874021888

 Thu Nov 09 16:43:48 +0000 2023

Just thought of another one: Deadpool 2.
The "Super Duper Cut" makes every joke too long, the replacement scenes are not as funny, and it just flat out ruins of the movie's best scenes simply by having different music over it.

 Thu Nov 09 17:06:20 +0000 2023

"StarCraft Adventures" when? https://x.com/pcgamer/status/1721899904333713494

 Thu Nov 09 17:10:05 +0000 2023

Wes lets him work on his own terms. That's the trick.

 Thu Nov 09 17:34:49 +0000 2023

SpeakerDoom, DOOM with pcm PC Speaker sound from 1998, accomplished in an rather interesting way:

The package is actually a small Linux 🐧with PCSNDDRV as its sound driver, that boots from DOS via Loadlin. 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Nov 09 23:54:34 +0000 2023

It very much is, but it does work.

 Thu Nov 09 23:55:54 +0000 2023

ZealOS, a 64-bit fork of TempleOS:
https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS

 Fri Nov 10 00:33:32 +0000 2023

Build an MS-DOS games emulator on Kubernetes
https://akyriako.medium.com/build-an-ms-dos-games-emulator-on-kubernetes-146ba6f142d9

 Fri Nov 10 00:37:33 +0000 2023

You can, but that limits you to DOS 7.

 Fri Nov 10 01:21:21 +0000 2023

Chicken noodle god come down from the mountain
Sayin' chicken noodle man you gotta work all day.
Chicken noodle man you gotta cross the River Jordan,
Feed the devil soup until your troubles go away.

 Fri Nov 10 13:17:35 +0000 2023

RT @RetroGameGeeks: UNDER A KILLING MOON: In 1994 Tex Murphy was hired by Countess Renier to find a missing statuette. The third entry in a…

 Fri Nov 10 13:45:40 +0000 2023

Apparently 40 years ago today is when Windows was first publicly previewed.
It ended up missing the announced release date of April 1984, and came out two years after the preview in November of 1985. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/772213622508519425

 Fri Nov 10 13:56:11 +0000 2023

Here's the modern update:
https://www.gamefront.com/games/conflict-middle-east-political-simulator/file/conflict-m-e-p-s

 Fri Nov 10 14:00:50 +0000 2023

WOW.WAD is a must.

 Fri Nov 10 18:20:50 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: Here's a historic 1991 letter from John @romero, when he sent me images of the original 3 Commander Keen levels, back when…

 Fri Nov 10 18:28:29 +0000 2023

Yeah, it's a game that requires a Pentium 2 running on a single core emulator. That's about as good as it's going to get. 🤷

 Fri Nov 10 20:40:03 +0000 2023

Which game?

 Fri Nov 10 20:47:07 +0000 2023

🤔

 Fri Nov 10 20:59:52 +0000 2023

Babby ❤

 Fri Nov 10 21:00:16 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: SpeakerDoom, DOOM with pcm PC Speaker sound from 1998, accomplished in an rather interesting way:

The package is actuall…

 Fri Nov 10 21:08:41 +0000 2023

It works okay. The port of Doom it's bundled with is not the greatest, as this was made within about half a year of Doom source code release.

 Fri Nov 10 22:14:40 +0000 2023

A bit weird for anyone to select it as a product of the year since it didn't actually come out till November of 1985.

 Fri Nov 10 23:31:59 +0000 2023

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: Soundblaster 1.0

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛️⬛️🟩◼️🟩⬛◼️🟩◼️⬛️
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛◼️◼️⬛️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️
🟨🟨🟨⬜️

❤️ #Do…

 Fri Nov 10 23:57:13 +0000 2023

RT @SierraOnLineUni: 🧐⁉️

King's Quest & Leisure Suit Larry

In...

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993)

#KingsQuest #LeisureSui…

 Fri Nov 10 23:57:42 +0000 2023

RT @VinciusMedeiro6: I have something great to share.

After many years, SiN (1998) has finally received a source port and it's amazing. Th…

 Sat Nov 11 01:41:06 +0000 2023

 Sat Nov 11 05:30:16 +0000 2023

👀🤷

 Sat Nov 11 05:34:49 +0000 2023

RT @PointThenClick: Conquests of the Longbow is one of my favorite games. It has everything: action, romance, beautiful scenery & a great s…

 Sat Nov 11 09:35:22 +0000 2023

RT @damgentemp: Today KeeperFX 1.0 was released, marking the completion of the entire original Dungeon Keeper code being rewritten plus a b…

 Sat Nov 11 14:38:23 +0000 2023

Sick. In bed, reading, drinking tea. Not a bad time, tbh.

 Sat Nov 11 15:58:33 +0000 2023

TIL about these Dungeon Keeper bugs

 Sat Nov 11 16:37:59 +0000 2023

Is there a possibility of hearing the day intro music on a General MIDI device instead of an OPL player? Something tells me it's not that bad.

 Sat Nov 11 16:47:21 +0000 2023

Very nice. Just learned that the $5.21 I got from the Equifax beach lawsuit was simply wiped out earlier this year. Amazing.

 Sat Nov 11 16:57:31 +0000 2023

Adding AI to my 26 year old QBASIC game - Timberwolf
https://youtu.be/ldurlH6117E?si=ZxbreAt7z31gAXl8

 Sat Nov 11 17:41:42 +0000 2023

"For less than $1,500 you can grab quite a package."
- How to have Cybersex on the Internet (1996)

 Sat Nov 11 18:16:45 +0000 2023

Thanks. On it.

 Sat Nov 11 18:25:20 +0000 2023

I thought it was Tiger Woods in EGA at first. 🤔 https://x.com/ForePlayPod/status/1720818242480959582

 Sat Nov 11 18:49:13 +0000 2023

I mean it's pretty uncanny

 Sat Nov 11 18:53:43 +0000 2023

Bill Gates became a billionaire in 1987. In 1994, the year *before* Internet Explorer was released, his net worth was $9.35 billion.
He did not personally write MS-DOS.

 Sat Nov 11 19:20:13 +0000 2023

It's an airbrushed black & white production photo

 Sat Nov 11 20:54:09 +0000 2023

It's paint over of an official production still "RO 55-16" by the on-set photographer Deana Newcomb

 Sat Nov 11 20:58:45 +0000 2023

From RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop (2023):

 Sat Nov 11 21:02:57 +0000 2023

RT @Wowhead: Senior Art Director Samwise Didier announced his retirement from Blizzard Entertainment today. Credited with creating Blizzard…

 Sat Nov 11 21:07:33 +0000 2023

Cousin!

 Sat Nov 11 21:15:08 +0000 2023

I was hoping Fury Road was going to be a harbinger, and yet... 🤷‍♂️

 Sat Nov 11 21:17:03 +0000 2023

Super Solvers: Challenge of the Ancient Empires!/Ancient Empires (The Learning Company, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Nov 11 22:18:15 +0000 2023

The "original" here is the 1987 DOS remake, not the 1984 PCjr original, although the graphics are mostly the same.

 Sat Nov 11 22:31:16 +0000 2023

"Piracy can certainly lead to preservation." Strange wording. Can anyone think of examples when software piracy *didn't* lead to preservation of said software (in the digital era)? 🤔

 Sat Nov 11 23:01:45 +0000 2023

RT @GameResearch_E: Putting together Day of the Tentacle at Lucasarts. Circa 1993.

 Sat Nov 11 23:01:56 +0000 2023

Eh, I guess one could just send files of something they've pirated to *just* their friends, and no one else. 🤷‍♂️ But otherwise as soon as you make something pirated actually public, that's automatically a check mark on the first preservation step.

 Sat Nov 11 23:05:14 +0000 2023

Well, luckily for you all the women in the video take off their tops after the first 10 minutes.

 Sat Nov 11 23:46:18 +0000 2023

$1,500 in 1996 is about $2,900 today. 😯

 Sun Nov 12 00:18:24 +0000 2023

It is a very impressive and detailed work, but the artist was air brushing *over* this photo, so a most of the lighting comes from the source.

 Sun Nov 12 00:40:04 +0000 2023

"Narcissus" aka Recruitment Theme from Cannon Fodder as it appears in the game's 3DO port by Krisalis Software: https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1357479907945816064

 Sun Nov 12 01:32:42 +0000 2023

The hill from Cannon Fodder.
Amiga (1993), PC (1993), 3DO (1994), and Jaguar (1995)

 Sun Nov 12 01:50:18 +0000 2023

Oh yes
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1357480926876467200

 Sun Nov 12 01:53:07 +0000 2023

Very much so
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1631398192011984904?t=cabBhYSqaSBbw75JxLYw1A&s=19

 Sun Nov 12 02:32:46 +0000 2023

It's been a while, but yes, I think the PC booter version is more or less the same. Missing the IBM logo, I think. But you wouldn't get any of the jr features, so it was CGA in either RGB or composite. Don't remember the sound specifically. Might have to investigate.

 Sun Nov 12 12:17:47 +0000 2023

Pffft. For all we know one of the modders could be a gay trans furry. Or at least two out of three. Just as easy of an assumption.

 Sun Nov 12 12:50:23 +0000 2023

DosView, a DOS viewer and converter of image files, including modern formats such as WEBP
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DosView

 Sun Nov 12 13:38:36 +0000 2023

It's interesting to see how different artists interpreted and adapted Amiga's original graphics to different, higher graphical capabilities of other systems. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1723518549572964404

 Sun Nov 12 15:29:20 +0000 2023

Tbh I kind of like the DOS variant the least. 🤷‍♂️

 Sun Nov 12 15:33:40 +0000 2023

It must feels a bit sloppy. You can just tell it's a bunch of Deluxe Paint brush and spray tools over the original art.
Not sure which one I like the most. The 3DO one is very nice, although it also departs the most from the original.

 Sun Nov 12 17:15:39 +0000 2023

Zaxxon (SEGA Enterprises, 1984) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Nov 12 17:51:03 +0000 2023

Cheese Terminator (Windows 3.x, 1992) #NotDOS

 Sun Nov 12 18:15:46 +0000 2023

"Cheese Terminator" was an official Microsoft product available for free to Polish Windows users who filled out a registration card and sent it to Microsoft's European office in German.

 Sun Nov 12 18:23:41 +0000 2023

In 2015 one such user found an old registration card, and sent it in to Microsoft's office in Poland. To their & everyone's surprise, a few months later they received a package from Microsoft containing a box with the game on a floppy and a USB floppy drive.

 Sun Nov 12 18:26:20 +0000 2023

Not only that, but Microsoft at the same time also released an update of the game called "Cheese Terminator: Reloaded" for Windows Phones. As Windows Phone is now dead, the developer of Reloaded made a WebGL version available this year:
https://www.chroscielski.pl/cheese-terminator-reloaded/

 Sun Nov 12 18:30:36 +0000 2023

You can play the original 1992 Windows version in browser via The Internet Archive.
(Press F2 to start a new game, otherwise you can't advance past the first level.)
https://archive.org/details/mct_20200922

 Sun Nov 12 18:39:01 +0000 2023

No, different author in a different country.

 Sun Nov 12 18:44:43 +0000 2023

Do you mean QBasic Gorillas?

 Sun Nov 12 19:50:01 +0000 2023

RT @JanelleWaz: Catching up on the Worf Walking Simulator.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

#GamingSaturday #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #AFinalUnity…

 Sun Nov 12 19:53:32 +0000 2023

Anything else you can remember about it? A description of visual presentation would help too.

 Sun Nov 12 20:58:50 +0000 2023

 Sun Nov 12 22:26:11 +0000 2023

RT @drjclau: All the people who were laid off in the industry this year.

 Sun Nov 12 22:33:02 +0000 2023

Slam it to the left
If you're having a good time
Shake it to the right
If you know that you feel fine
MIDI to the front
Ha ha
Go round

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sun Nov 12 23:17:41 +0000 2023

People always ask me where I get my MIDI files. The answer is: I look for them. On websites that look like this.

 Sun Nov 12 23:18:42 +0000 2023

So I finally saw a couple of clips of the 7th Guest VR Remake and... looks kind of good, right? Interesting approach too. Pretty much everything is sort of re-interpreted. That's cool.

 Sun Nov 12 23:23:30 +0000 2023

And this aspect is indeed very nice.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1669847223578894338

 Sun Nov 12 23:29:31 +0000 2023

Damn. Most money-minded people would love to be that kind of smart. Most of them can't even manage that. Often when people want to put Gates down today a lot of what say amounts to "he's a successful businessman". 🤷‍♂️ Buddy, this is just how businesses/CEOs work.

 Mon Nov 13 00:22:52 +0000 2023

I doubt there's a single CEO currently that actually invented the product their company is selling now. If I'm wrong, please let me know.

 Mon Nov 13 00:24:12 +0000 2023

(I'm not a Gates fan, just find this kind of attack vector really weird. Usually it's also from people who loooove capitlism. But not like that, I guess. 🤷‍♂️)

 Mon Nov 13 00:25:40 +0000 2023

Imo Gates deserves a bunch of hate. Just not for 70% of things people attribute to him.

 Mon Nov 13 00:27:18 +0000 2023

Yep. People also say he never wrote anything, and got rich because of DOS, but that isn't true at all. He got MEGARICH because of DOS, but the year before the whole DOS thing Microsoft had $8 mil in sales and 40 employees already.

 Mon Nov 13 00:32:07 +0000 2023

That's right. He was very much one of the first people in the enthusiast computing scene.

 Mon Nov 13 00:34:59 +0000 2023

Ok, I laughed out louder than I expected. 😆

 Mon Nov 13 00:38:07 +0000 2023

I am open to this idea.

 Mon Nov 13 02:13:47 +0000 2023

Damn. I should have thought of this. 😅

 Mon Nov 13 02:56:21 +0000 2023

Not a joke, btw. This is absolutely a real website:
https://www.angelfire.com/hi/mixedinblenderbyme/spice.html

 Mon Nov 13 03:05:12 +0000 2023

This is the second "isekai" reference I've encountered this month, previous one being the first time I've seen this term, and because of my familiarity with the game I now understand what it means.

 Mon Nov 13 03:42:30 +0000 2023

Because I consume basically 0 Japanese media I knew nothing of this.

 Mon Nov 13 03:57:53 +0000 2023

 Mon Nov 13 04:50:53 +0000 2023

... Including Hunter, a platform exclusive that influenced exactly nothing. There were plenty of 3D games in the 80s.
I do agree that generally many "firsts" that are recognized didn't do the revolutionary thing they are known for first. But popularity & influence do matter.

 Mon Nov 13 12:56:03 +0000 2023

Hunter, btw, most likely takes major inspiration from Midwinter (1989).

 Mon Nov 13 12:57:23 +0000 2023

I do, but I personally never used it back in the day.

 Mon Nov 13 12:58:07 +0000 2023

Does MagiDuck count? Not much of a throwback, but in CGA 16 color exploit:
https://www.indiedb.com/games/magiduck

 Mon Nov 13 13:03:43 +0000 2023

RT @gordoslair: The first Sound Blaster 16, 1992, with a Yamaha YMF262 (OPL3) and DSP 4.05. No hanging note bug and I love that it still ha…

 Mon Nov 13 13:30:59 +0000 2023

There are others too. Take a look here:
https://www.doshaven.eu/

 Mon Nov 13 13:37:06 +0000 2023

On a real CGA card Tapper changes the palette. It's from the time when composite output was common, so it supports that as well.
(Also it's technically not a DOS game as in its non-pirated form it is a PC booter, and doesn't need DOS at all.)

 Mon Nov 13 13:40:41 +0000 2023

In 1982, sure. In 1992, not so much.

 Mon Nov 13 13:46:18 +0000 2023

Happy Monday, everyone.

 Mon Nov 13 14:02:58 +0000 2023

Absolutely.

 Mon Nov 13 14:14:23 +0000 2023

Pfft. I can just as easily throw the good old AY in the mix as well then
https://youtu.be/yhl8rT4_aGE?si=FRl7G47SPCMk2LjV

 Mon Nov 13 14:17:21 +0000 2023

Sure, but have you listened to the video?

 Mon Nov 13 14:19:07 +0000 2023

Right back at ya

 Mon Nov 13 14:21:17 +0000 2023

Yep. Nobody on PC ever got to use the CMS/Game Blaster for anything other than multi-channel bleeps and bloops for the short time it was on the market, and yet you could always do this without any undocumented features or creative exploits:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1215104892064489472

 Mon Nov 13 14:32:06 +0000 2023

Meanwhile, Sound Blaster 16: 😉
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1724065321944834217

 Mon Nov 13 14:35:27 +0000 2023

Ah. I see. There must be a medical term for this.

 Mon Nov 13 15:13:03 +0000 2023

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: Crysis (2007) is now as old as Hovertank 3D (1991) was when Crysis was released.

 Mon Nov 13 15:40:34 +0000 2023

Day 3 of being sick at home

 Mon Nov 13 16:01:27 +0000 2023

Huh. A new build of MS-DOS 5 had surfaced in a recently leaked Windows NT 3.1 beta build from 2 whole years prior to release. Apparently already a part of its NTVDM thing.

 Mon Nov 13 16:22:51 +0000 2023

Interesting. Do you remember anything about the MS-DOS code that you wrote?

 Mon Nov 13 16:42:54 +0000 2023

Me when I finish a page of a script

 Mon Nov 13 17:01:00 +0000 2023

Unused MIDI "Start of the Day" tune from Under a Killing Moon that can still be found in the game's files. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1724065321944834217

 Mon Nov 13 18:26:24 +0000 2023

So it turns out that LucasArts was better at saving source code than most 90s gaming companies out there. https://x.com/pcgamer/status/1724097316188000372

 Mon Nov 13 18:38:25 +0000 2023

I believe all of Double Fine remasters of LucasArts' games were also based on actual surviving source code & archived resources.

 Mon Nov 13 18:40:16 +0000 2023

OR, additionally, Disney is better at holding onto Lucas' materials than any gaming companies that *bought* the other 90s gaming companies. Also something to keep in mind.

 Mon Nov 13 18:42:50 +0000 2023

How much shit did EA chuck in the garbage when closing the offices of all the studios they bought? Inquiring minds need to know.

 Mon Nov 13 18:44:29 +0000 2023

Well, drawings would be a physical thing, so I wouldn't count on something like that being stored for 25 years. But at the same time they couldn't find 3D models for backgrounds or the raw audio in Grim Fandango, so I guess some stuff was there, and other stuff wasn't.

 Mon Nov 13 18:47:06 +0000 2023

Oh now THAT'S a bummer. 😥

 Mon Nov 13 19:27:30 +0000 2023

https://www.getdigital.eu/purple-tentacle-blanket-with-sleeves.html

 Mon Nov 13 19:29:17 +0000 2023

There are a few people out there who have a copy of the complete Origin backup at the point right before EA threw everything in the trash. It's not public. But if they don't have it then nobody does.

 Mon Nov 13 20:29:08 +0000 2023

ScummVM is close to full support, so it'll happen without the source code.

 Mon Nov 13 20:51:57 +0000 2023

It's gonna be good. But currently there's a way to play through the game with all kinds of quality of life improvements already:
https://theforceengine.github.io/

 Mon Nov 13 21:00:03 +0000 2023

Not sure tbh

 Mon Nov 13 21:37:07 +0000 2023

Tried the only interactive demo I had. No, it's not in it.

 Mon Nov 13 22:00:16 +0000 2023

Discovery of arbitrary code execution hacks in vanilla DOOM games lead to the creation of ACE Engine.
You can now customize classic DOS version of DOOM 2 with GZDoom-like levels of additional features, all by loading a WAD file like any other.
INSANE demo:
https://youtu.be/h7h7rHDOf7c?si=QsmrP7V4i2J5tO28

 Mon Nov 13 23:28:14 +0000 2023

Almost 30 years after the creation of DeHackEd its external installation procedure is now obsolete. Now you can have DeHackEd files embedded in a WAD file that loads the code changes at runtime!

 Mon Nov 13 23:32:02 +0000 2023

Likely because there was no way to actually exit. Originally a PC booter program it didn't need DOS at all, & there'd be nothing to exit to. A pirated version would be a small .COM file that ran in DOS, & if a pirate didn't implement an exit function, restart was the only option.

 Tue Nov 14 02:35:30 +0000 2023

RT @spacetwinks: it's also reminding me of the existence of MS-DOS Robocop 3, which was not *good*, but it WAS incredibly ambitious, having…

 Tue Nov 14 03:03:49 +0000 2023

Good night.

 Tue Nov 14 03:20:28 +0000 2023

👆 This guy owns Keen Dreams and gets paid when you buy any of the versions he linked. He's also a huge bigot. I've got the receipts, but usually a quick look at his reply TL would do. Make your own conclusions.

 Tue Nov 14 04:31:36 +0000 2023

👍

 Tue Nov 14 04:33:37 +0000 2023

Yes, but the original 95 is like a dozen disks. That's tolerable. Did you install OSR2 or, god forbid, 98 (which I think had something like 35 disks) off of floppies? At that point I feel it was easier to plop the hdd drive into a different machine & copy all the setup files.

 Tue Nov 14 11:36:00 +0000 2023

Мои года - моё богатство

 Tue Nov 14 11:40:35 +0000 2023

The game was not great as well

 Tue Nov 14 11:40:57 +0000 2023

I meant more in terms of volume.

 Tue Nov 14 11:55:05 +0000 2023

The US distributor only made a single disc version, despite listing it as 2.

 Tue Nov 14 12:12:50 +0000 2023

Meow

 Tue Nov 14 13:18:57 +0000 2023

I can't believe James Cameron actually finally signed off on The Abyss remaster that he's been promising for 20 years, and still managed to beat Peter Jackson who still hadn't put out a single remaster of any of his first few films that he's been promising for just as long. https://x.com/JimCameron/status/1724110520075305401

 Tue Nov 14 13:33:04 +0000 2023

It would look like Bad Taste, but not compressed to hell in an ancient MPEG codec on a 25 year old format.

 Tue Nov 14 13:44:28 +0000 2023

 Tue Nov 14 14:22:54 +0000 2023

I don't know what Mk3 means, so I'm assuming Mortal Kombat 3. 🤷‍♂️

 Tue Nov 14 14:28:05 +0000 2023

Weird. A RAR archive of the MK3 rip that I've had since 1997 is only 18.5 megs in size, and would fit on 13 floppies.

 Tue Nov 14 14:31:25 +0000 2023

It's the DOS one.

 Tue Nov 14 14:37:40 +0000 2023

That's the one that I have, but surely they wouldn't sell it to you uncompressed? Especially considering there are 4 files that are larger than 1.44mb in there.

 Tue Nov 14 14:52:03 +0000 2023

😄

 Tue Nov 14 14:58:42 +0000 2023

Amazon

 Tue Nov 14 14:59:38 +0000 2023

Tuesday mood
🦙🔊🎵

 Tue Nov 14 15:18:31 +0000 2023

This song is licensed, btw. Here it is in 1991 arcade "Who Shot Johnny Rock?" by American Laser Games: https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1724065321944834217

 Tue Nov 14 19:09:59 +0000 2023

A re-release of Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander has dropped on both GOG and Steam, and quite surprisingly includes an updated version of the game:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/star_fleet_ii_krellan_commander_version_20
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1470940/STAR_FLEET_II__Krellan_Commander_Version_20/

 Tue Nov 14 19:24:34 +0000 2023

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 Tue Nov 14 21:00:56 +0000 2023

#DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 15 00:07:00 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: INFORMER.MID, ya' no say daddy me Snow me I go blame
A licky boom boom down

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Wed Nov 15 00:32:15 +0000 2023

 Wed Nov 15 00:48:00 +0000 2023

RT @jmechner: For anyone interested, two years after that tweet, I wrote this blog article about Prince of Persia's many boxes: https://t.c…

 Wed Nov 15 11:41:13 +0000 2023

It's pretty simple, but the game doesn't communicate it. Have to read the manual.

 Wed Nov 15 13:55:38 +0000 2023

Here's to at least two more years! 🥂🍾

 Wed Nov 15 14:02:36 +0000 2023

DOOM turning 30 soon isn't really shocking to me. The world changed so much since I first played DOOM, I might as well have been living on a different planet then.

 Wed Nov 15 16:54:45 +0000 2023

It was kind of the opposite. I didn't imagine that shooters would have a drastic shift in design philosophy about 12 years later. I always imagined future fps games pretty much as the nostalgic shooters of today.
https://x.com/damgentemp/status/1724834114241478966?t=YDKUWS7zGi-c01z6W_CJYA&s=19

 Wed Nov 15 17:00:18 +0000 2023

SNES port doesn't deserve the reputation is it somehow managed to earn. Yes, it's less than ideal way to experience DOOM, but it's also both a technological miracle and still a fairly playable game.

 Wed Nov 15 17:16:52 +0000 2023

RT @MobyGamer: Do you shoot video of old computers? Would you like to improve your process? I wrote up how I shoot "vintage computer" produ…

 Wed Nov 15 18:53:13 +0000 2023

RT @mrtnkl: Remember Commander Keen, Dune 2, Command & Conquer, Jazz Jackrabbit, DOOM or Supaplex?

Check out my new hobby project: DOS_de…

 Wed Nov 15 20:16:34 +0000 2023

Me when a C64 fan says SID was "better" than Sound Blaster 16, and sends a link to a game that requires a 4 MEGABYTE RAM upgrade for a C64 to stream its 1-bit sampled PCM soundtrack as proof:

 Wed Nov 15 20:41:28 +0000 2023

Man, I know I'm gonna miss this batshit insane social network when it's gone.

 Wed Nov 15 20:42:21 +0000 2023

I've been on Mastodon since 2016

 Wed Nov 15 20:48:31 +0000 2023

Yo, why did you delete everything, @Shaun8ebbington? I wanted to look at that game again, and forgot the name.

 Wed Nov 15 20:50:32 +0000 2023

Here's pretty much a perfect conversion of Matt Gray's Bangkok Knights loader SID tune done on Atari ST's AY chip. ST's CPU is fast enough to force a humble AY into waveforms it wasn't meant for, and it's glorious.
https://youtu.be/LGirs-oEn5Q?si=pba9FVtlJM0HJTdp

 Wed Nov 15 20:57:07 +0000 2023

Wait, ST had a YM, didn't it? Whatever. Same shit. 😅 This is why I'm not AtariSTNostalgic.

 Wed Nov 15 20:59:24 +0000 2023

If you're singing Axel F, and she chimes in with "DING DING," she's too young for you, bro.

 Wed Nov 15 21:11:03 +0000 2023

I hope that day never happens because I might get a brain aneurysm and die.

 Wed Nov 15 21:38:06 +0000 2023

 Wed Nov 15 21:38:45 +0000 2023

While historical accuracy of Ridley Scott's Napoleon is being questioned let me remind you that Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon prep involved a cabinet with cards breaking down Napoleon's life *day by day*. Including the summer he spent with his uncle in Alaska hunting wolverines.

 Wed Nov 15 22:18:50 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: I walk the corner to the rubble, that used to be a library
🔊🎵#OPL3MIDI

 Wed Nov 15 22:34:37 +0000 2023

Does within the past month count?

 Wed Nov 15 23:58:07 +0000 2023

A very important poll:
What color is Peter Norton's iconic shirt?

 Wed Nov 15 23:59:27 +0000 2023

RT @JoeSiegler: Released 29 years ago today (Nov 15, 1994) was the puzzle game "Boppin".

It was discontinued ages ago at the request of…

 Thu Nov 16 00:13:19 +0000 2023

Nah. Just because one color is referenced in a bad movie doesn't necessarily mean it matches the general consciousness.

 Thu Nov 16 00:55:55 +0000 2023

Nobody believes me, but I finally found a dentist that does the "best" root canals. Last time I got one the most annoying part was keeping the mouth open for so long.

 Thu Nov 16 01:27:38 +0000 2023

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Thu Nov 16 01:36:23 +0000 2023

This documentary is AMAZING. And I say as someone who already knew a bunch of things about RoboCop before going in it.

 Thu Nov 16 01:56:44 +0000 2023

Wait, you THIS being shot??? I've seen it a million times.

 Thu Nov 16 02:14:45 +0000 2023

I've stumbled upon this video about Xenon 2: Megablast, and I haven't laughed so much while watching a retrogaming video in a long time: 🤣🤣🤣
https://youtu.be/0Qbbc58xCyA?si=pCb0zheMI0BHNV8a

 Thu Nov 16 02:52:34 +0000 2023

If Xenon 2 wasn't a shmup, it would probably qualify as the most quintessential Amiga shit game. It has all the elements. It is absolutely beloved and fondly remembered by many. Its presentation & time of release are so powerful that it produced pleasant memories lasting decades.

 Thu Nov 16 03:02:30 +0000 2023

This is a myth. Commander Keen was the first game that managed to scroll at 24 fps specifically in EGA, yes, but there are scrolling games that predate it. Take Baal from 1989 for example.
https://youtu.be/JRxda7OoyHU?si=d5-cqnxq9pRPs5M2

 Thu Nov 16 13:19:38 +0000 2023

The last standalone* version of MS-DOS.

 Thu Nov 16 13:21:50 +0000 2023

Commander Keen also has most of seen in just empty background color, also for speed considerations in its adaptive tile technique.
No, of course not. If you find one, let me know.

 Thu Nov 16 13:32:40 +0000 2023

Another famous game that predates Keen by a few moths is the DOS port of Golden Axe. It's rather slow, but it has full screen scrolling in VGA and EGA.

 Thu Nov 16 13:36:05 +0000 2023

It won't. Mike Wiering's games are not that efficient. Charlie 2 has multiple parallax layers, and chokes up on a early Pentium.

 Thu Nov 16 13:43:29 +0000 2023

Hmmm. Looks like I have some testing to do.

 Thu Nov 16 13:54:10 +0000 2023

RT @DOSSTORM: Do you guys remember the ESS Audiodrive? Is it still the budget king of the retro DOS Game world? Check it out in my new vide…

 Thu Nov 16 15:29:59 +0000 2023

Synnergist (DOS) review - Grimbeard
http://youtu.be/bbpnV05IKbU

 Thu Nov 16 16:35:14 +0000 2023

WHAT THE FUCK

 Thu Nov 16 18:00:03 +0000 2023

RT @rasteri: This restaurant appears to be in a parallel universe

 Thu Nov 16 18:00:10 +0000 2023

YES! IT HAPPENED!!!!!
Dune: Spice Opera is coming back in 2024!
https://soundcloud.com/st-phane-picq/ecolove-remaster-for-dune https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1488665906372874241

 Thu Nov 16 18:18:03 +0000 2023

Conventional memory was still capped at 640k, didn't matter if you used Windows 95 or DOS.

 Thu Nov 16 18:31:18 +0000 2023

*reaches for the BLOCK button*

 Thu Nov 16 18:44:49 +0000 2023

Idk if "CD" here is meant to be taken literally, but I hope so

 Thu Nov 16 18:46:33 +0000 2023

I can't see this tweet because I blocked you for terrible taste in Terminator films. 😋

 Thu Nov 16 18:47:56 +0000 2023

Hehe. Of course for an Amiga fan this one would be *the* song. It's not in any other version of the game, after all. 😉

 Thu Nov 16 19:41:50 +0000 2023

RT @Wario64: Half-Life is free to own on Steam (offer good until Nov 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/

want to feel old? the game is turning 2…

 Thu Nov 16 19:57:20 +0000 2023

Wtf happened? Did everyone really just rush in to get Half-Life 1 on Steam for some reason? 😅

 Thu Nov 16 20:50:47 +0000 2023

I'll be *very* surprised if that's what happened. Didn't expect so many people not to own Half-Life already.

 Thu Nov 16 20:51:30 +0000 2023

I mean, it's very possible. But.... if a person wanted HL I feel like they'd already own HL before today.

 Thu Nov 16 20:53:16 +0000 2023

Update for original Half-Life???

 Thu Nov 16 20:53:44 +0000 2023

Personally, I've had Half-Life on Steam already because I've actually punched in the serial number from my physical box (by Sierra!) into Steam on some lonely day a long long time ago.

 Thu Nov 16 20:56:15 +0000 2023

It's a terrible looking ad, but the game is very good looking.

 Thu Nov 16 21:00:38 +0000 2023

Huh. Interesting. But no, no announcements. Half-Life was listed as free until 20th on Steam, then turned into an error, then turned back to paid at regular price.

 Thu Nov 16 21:05:22 +0000 2023

I definitely got it for 2 because it was required. 😄

 Thu Nov 16 21:15:41 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: ZSNES v0.150 (MS-DOS, 1997)

 Thu Nov 16 21:35:55 +0000 2023

C64 does not predate PC DOS, as IBM PC launched half a year earlier.

 Fri Nov 17 00:24:23 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1725258783176458485

 Fri Nov 17 00:27:00 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: A very important poll:
What color is Peter Norton's iconic shirt?

 Fri Nov 17 00:29:31 +0000 2023

 Fri Nov 17 01:58:22 +0000 2023

A Pierre Gilhodes exhibit is happening this weekend: https://x.com/retro_dmt/status/1725084626006261824

 Fri Nov 17 02:51:10 +0000 2023

what does that have to do with anything? Saying "c64 predates PC DOS" is objectively incorrect.

 Fri Nov 17 12:26:42 +0000 2023

Apparently Flashback 2 got released yesterday seemingly without any kind of a major promo effort. The reviews are looking... not great to say the least. I guess it's safe to assume Microids ran out of money.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008420/Flashback_2/

 Fri Nov 17 14:01:19 +0000 2023

They've released anything worthwhile ever?

 Fri Nov 17 14:05:15 +0000 2023

According to the reviews nothing got added because the game is lacking features it supposed to have in the first place, and whatever had made it in there is broken.

 Fri Nov 17 14:15:32 +0000 2023

Oh, I guess you can't jump. That's one "modernization" that is actually there.

 Fri Nov 17 14:16:28 +0000 2023

As someone who's been playing Microids adventure games since the 90s I'm here to tell you that "as always" in that statement should be replaced with "maybe occasionally".
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1353036896885239811?t=iezdFvv_v4QOVaOniucemw&s=19

 Fri Nov 17 14:19:05 +0000 2023

Dracula games aren't even their..at least not the ones I've played.

 Fri Nov 17 14:21:59 +0000 2023

Neither. He bought it.

 Fri Nov 17 16:49:28 +0000 2023

Well, now I'd like to hear it.

 Fri Nov 17 16:50:06 +0000 2023

It's on GOG now too. In case you're brave & have a spare $40 you wouldn't mind letting go of.
https://x.com/GOGcom/status/1725544450246488357?t=yTFH-pVkoztK0IxHqlKMqg&s=19

 Fri Nov 17 17:11:39 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: YES! IT HAPPENED!!!!!
Dune: Spice Opera is coming back in 2024!
https://soundcloud.com/st-phane-picq/ecolove-remaster-for-dune https://t.co/hOST0NUw7L

 Fri Nov 17 17:13:31 +0000 2023

 Fri Nov 17 17:23:42 +0000 2023

RT @cooperx86: I've discovered the Internet cafe in my town in the 90s still has its 2000-era web site up and running despite the cafe havi…

 Fri Nov 17 17:34:37 +0000 2023

Opening line or Jumanji: "Don't worry. It's just a pack of wolves."
MOTHERFUCKER, WHAT?!?!

 Fri Nov 17 18:29:52 +0000 2023

RT @lazygamereviews: SimCity 2000 is now *30* years old! Time for an LGR retrospective: https://youtu.be/RnWZqfUDXp8

SC2K was revolutionary in…

 Fri Nov 17 18:29:59 +0000 2023

RT @dannyodwyer: This was literally my dream project. We didn't have much time to do it but the entire team killed it.

There are too many…

 Fri Nov 17 18:55:54 +0000 2023

A pack of wolves is just as dangerous as anything that came out of Jumanji throughout the course the film.

 Fri Nov 17 20:03:05 +0000 2023

RT @valvesoftware: Half-Life turns 25 this weekend, and we're pushing a big update to bring back some of that 1998 feeling with restored or…

 Fri Nov 17 20:38:03 +0000 2023

RT @Gammitin: My first ever PC from 30 years ago, I've rebuilt it in 2023, I'm forever chasing those nostalgia highs!

CPU/FPU: Intel 386DX…

 Fri Nov 17 20:48:49 +0000 2023

Fuck. yes.

 Fri Nov 17 21:20:12 +0000 2023

I always hated smoothing of low res textures. Even back in the day.

 Fri Nov 17 21:41:53 +0000 2023

It is kind of crazy to me that Another World had no influence on Half-Life. So many parallels, but in the end it was just a great minds think alike situation.

 Fri Nov 17 21:46:45 +0000 2023

I mean... none of those run at 60 fps.

 Fri Nov 17 22:50:23 +0000 2023

How many people currently work at Apogee who personally worked on the games listed?

 Fri Nov 17 22:58:33 +0000 2023

Fade to Black took place 48 years after Flashback, so it's not that big of a retcon.

 Fri Nov 17 23:24:31 +0000 2023

Release dates on Steam for titles that predate digital distribution are always so weird.

 Sat Nov 18 00:26:03 +0000 2023

Thank you, and have a very safe and productive day.

 Sat Nov 18 00:39:42 +0000 2023

Wait. Scott Pilgrim anime got released today too?.... Why is today cool all of sudden? Did I die, and this whole thing is just some stupid Jacob's Ladder of what's left of my consciousness, and everything is still terrible & awful? 😨

 Sat Nov 18 00:54:59 +0000 2023

Oh my god. Is it me or is the Scott Pilgrim anime surprisingly good?

 Sat Nov 18 01:28:29 +0000 2023

GOTY edition

 Sat Nov 18 02:25:17 +0000 2023

Ummm... What?! 👀

 Sat Nov 18 02:29:59 +0000 2023

 Sat Nov 18 11:43:02 +0000 2023

RT @Pixelmusement: The last Ancient DOS Games episode for the year is uploaded and ready to watch! https://youtu.be/7htR380Rh3Q

 Sat Nov 18 13:44:46 +0000 2023

I wish we got more of Gaben's cat in the Half-Life 25th anniversary video.

 Sat Nov 18 14:08:06 +0000 2023

RT @JacobJanerka: In celebration of the Half-Life's 25th Anniversary, I decided to do a in-game portrait using VR

 Sat Nov 18 14:28:39 +0000 2023

What happened with Half-Life on November 8th 1998?

 Sat Nov 18 15:58:40 +0000 2023

The cat jumped into the shot. It was moving.

 Sat Nov 18 16:37:10 +0000 2023

25 year old co-worker: So what was so special about Half-Life?
Me: *deep breath* Well, ... (1/20)

 Sat Nov 18 16:38:23 +0000 2023

This guy, an adult man, is *literally* as old as Half-Life. 😨

 Sat Nov 18 16:40:34 +0000 2023

As someone who replayed SiN last year,...

 Sat Nov 18 16:46:24 +0000 2023

That's what I told him to do. Although I did explain that "what was cool" is that it did a lot of things we consider normal today first, so it's impossible to feel the impact today. It's like someone describing seeing a film in color for the first time. I can never experience it.

 Sat Nov 18 16:53:43 +0000 2023

It has aged shockingly poorly. I was actually quite surprised because I enjoyed it back in the day.

 Sat Nov 18 16:55:11 +0000 2023

Half-Life 2 is very good though.

 Sat Nov 18 16:59:30 +0000 2023

Idk, the wow factor of HL2 to me is the fact that it constantly manages to introduce new mechanics at just the right chunks of the game. Sort of like HL1, but bigger in scope. And it did it better than any post-HL1 game that tried.

 Sat Nov 18 17:27:30 +0000 2023

It got added to Steam in 1998?

 Sat Nov 18 17:28:02 +0000 2023

Right. So what's with "that date is probably when it was added to Steam"?

 Sat Nov 18 17:32:36 +0000 2023

The gags are great. The gameplay loop, not so much.

 Sat Nov 18 17:33:23 +0000 2023

Duke 3D aged fine for the most part. I must stress that in both cases I was talking specifically about game mechanics.

 Sat Nov 18 17:34:29 +0000 2023

Without it we would have Duke Nukem Forever either!... Oh wait...

 Sat Nov 18 17:35:24 +0000 2023

They've officially declared many times that it was on the 19th. And they declared it again yesterday.

 Sat Nov 18 17:36:30 +0000 2023

Half-Life 2 is definitely extremely linear.

 Sat Nov 18 17:54:13 +0000 2023

Windows 2 ended with 2.03 though.

 Sat Nov 18 20:39:47 +0000 2023

You know how the old saying goes: You don't have to say anything on social media, just post pictures of cats.

 Sat Nov 18 20:42:05 +0000 2023

Well, my dear long time followers, TAKE ONE FUCKING GUESS https://x.com/theWellRedMage/status/1725708129810235399

 Sat Nov 18 20:48:38 +0000 2023

I bought mine in a collector's edition box for $89.99 + tax at a GameStop, like a normal person.

 Sat Nov 18 21:12:52 +0000 2023

Wow. These scammers are getting desperate.

 Sat Nov 18 21:17:30 +0000 2023

Joke's on them. I've never once checked the stats for the podcast. I never intend to, and honestly I don't even know how to. I started the podcast for myself first, everything else was always secondary.

 Sat Nov 18 21:23:59 +0000 2023

No idea.

 Sat Nov 18 21:30:44 +0000 2023

It's called DOS Nostalgia Podcast. USE YOUR FAVORITE PODCASTING APP TO FIND IT.

 Sat Nov 18 21:32:01 +0000 2023

Please. No. NO MORE.

 Sat Nov 18 21:47:08 +0000 2023

Oh, there's already a vocal group of people bitching about the Scott Pilgrim anime? Jesus. Honestly i was grinning ear to ear while watching it last night. Can't wait to finish it. People need to fucking learn how to handle their expectations better. I love surprises, so I'm in!

 Sat Nov 18 21:55:21 +0000 2023

Just look at the fluffy babby!

 Sun Nov 19 00:01:53 +0000 2023

I would like this on a t-shirt.

 Sun Nov 19 02:46:15 +0000 2023

The writer of the 1990 Captain America movie on first time seeing the film:

 Sun Nov 19 02:53:48 +0000 2023

Consider yourself lucky. Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four it is not.

 Sun Nov 19 03:00:26 +0000 2023

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off was delightful. An unexpected surprise that exceeded my expectations. I now love the fact that we have 3 *very* different takes on Scott Pilgrim in 3 different mediums. That's cool.

 Sun Nov 19 04:51:57 +0000 2023

I will say that I probably enjoyed the first 4 episodes more than the last 4 possibly due to the fact that I rode the energy of the surprise of the 1st episode for the next three.

 Sun Nov 19 04:54:39 +0000 2023

Just like your dad

 Sun Nov 19 12:28:16 +0000 2023

Love you, buddy. 💋

 Sun Nov 19 12:31:25 +0000 2023

I would be asking myself how did I get to date this person in the first place.

 Sun Nov 19 15:51:14 +0000 2023

They are not abandonware, and are officially available on GOG
https://www.gog.com/en/game/warcraft_bundle

 Sun Nov 19 18:38:17 +0000 2023

MS-DOS 6 was released in 1993. "Long before GUI" it was not.

 Sun Nov 19 18:42:28 +0000 2023

I don't have a favorite tutorials for setting up dosbox because I don't need them, and I don't know anything about Android emulators because I don't play games on my phone.
I'm sure there are out there though.

 Sun Nov 19 18:44:37 +0000 2023

This is more of a Deluxe Paint Drawn Background Aesthetics than pre-rendered ones.

 Sun Nov 19 18:46:30 +0000 2023

Quake Turtle in the wild! https://x.com/THEBaratusII/status/1726272914818023535

 Sun Nov 19 18:56:04 +0000 2023

 Sun Nov 19 19:01:48 +0000 2023

Uh... It's probably not a problem,... probably, but I'm showing a small discrepancy in... well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again. Sustaining sequence.

 Sun Nov 19 19:58:58 +0000 2023

Final Orbit (Aftershock Entertainment/Innerprise Software, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Nov 19 21:35:21 +0000 2023

Magic Carpet 2 Basf femo

 Sun Nov 19 21:50:30 +0000 2023

 Mon Nov 20 04:30:22 +0000 2023

Well, here's Super Star Wars on a25 Mhz 386:

 Mon Nov 20 05:41:58 +0000 2023

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Opponent_Network

 Mon Nov 20 10:19:43 +0000 2023

So you're moving to Argentina soon? Good luck.

 Mon Nov 20 10:35:08 +0000 2023

It's a much better game than its old reputation. It's not as good of a game as its reevaluated reputation.

 Mon Nov 20 16:21:23 +0000 2023

Yep. Distinctly remember testing all my companions and them passing right before level change, only for one of them to reveal themselves as the thing in the next level's scripted beginning. 🤷

 Mon Nov 20 16:26:44 +0000 2023

We're coming up on the 25th anniversary of Thief: The Dark Project very soon. I doubt Embracer is gonna give us an updated version though. 🤷

 Mon Nov 20 16:37:02 +0000 2023

Tons of DOS games on sale: https://x.com/playziggurat/status/1726633693261754706

 Mon Nov 20 16:39:22 +0000 2023

Four years after the previous patch Blood: Fresh Supply gets an update that bundles the original DOS version with it.

 Mon Nov 20 16:49:04 +0000 2023

When people complain that some equipment somewhere "still runs DOS lol" they rarely consider what happens when you put a not-quite-up-to-date Windows device on a network. https://x.com/DatasheetDigest/status/1726653287431332324

 Mon Nov 20 18:15:32 +0000 2023

So the music in the Scott Pilgrim anime that plays when Ramona is investigating stuff feels like it's evoking Ace Attorney, right?
https://youtu.be/rOJe6BmXxoQ?si=ZelKFV2Mc6Dbcrh4

 Mon Nov 20 19:34:50 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI https://t.…

 Mon Nov 20 20:27:35 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1723842787064345031?t=bIWiZFFYxozufC11LJhIrQ&s=19

 Mon Nov 20 20:43:37 +0000 2023

Нью Йоркское метро, не важно был ты в нём до этого или не был.

 Mon Nov 20 20:45:57 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: 🎨🖌🤔

 Mon Nov 20 20:52:53 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: I'm cringing so hard at this passing-the-floppies shot in "The Tetris Murders" 😬😬😬

 Mon Nov 20 21:09:29 +0000 2023

Apart from the first one all screenshots are from Outlaws (1997)

 Tue Nov 21 00:19:44 +0000 2023

RT @spacetwinks: in the 90s on ms-dos people were inventing control schemes on keyboards made to break your hands and we all just said "goo…

 Tue Nov 21 00:30:28 +0000 2023

I haven't laughed at anything as much as I have at the scene that followed this in a long time. 😂

 Tue Nov 21 00:34:31 +0000 2023

Animated series

 Tue Nov 21 01:33:15 +0000 2023

Guys, I just couldn't help it. I did it. I bought a bag of Kinder Bueno Minis. AND I'M GONNA EAT THE WHOLE THING BY MYSELF.

 Tue Nov 21 02:21:18 +0000 2023

I just learned that the Nintendo 64 had a CPU clocked at 93.75 MHz and 125 MIPS and I don't know how to take this information.

 Tue Nov 21 02:50:04 +0000 2023

It apparently was so bottlenecked otherwise that the CPU was almost always at below 50% usage! 😯

 Tue Nov 21 03:01:18 +0000 2023

A new version of @cgawebsite, a client for easy playing DOSBox LAN multiplayer games over the internet, has been getting a bunch of updates lately, and the most recent one expanded it to more retro-ish machines: Now you can run it on Window XP and Windows 2000!

 Tue Nov 21 04:15:09 +0000 2023

The thing is all 3 were by Norton. Speeddisk, DOS 6 Defrag, and Windows 95 defrag too. Microsoft just licensed the tools. You can see the Symantec copyrights when you go to help > about option.

 Tue Nov 21 12:39:22 +0000 2023

BONUS!

 Tue Nov 21 14:13:20 +0000 2023

Me when I hear "Sharp Dressed Man"

 Tue Nov 21 15:55:09 +0000 2023

RT @ben_304: reinstalled Jagged Alliance 2 and now it's 1:15am

 Tue Nov 21 17:20:09 +0000 2023

RT @hannahgamiel: y'all -- we are selling a freakin LEGO MYST BOOK. SNAG IT BEFORE WE SELL OUT!!!!!!! https://t.co/63u1ZEfUQP

 Tue Nov 21 18:27:36 +0000 2023

Source code for Infocom's Z-machine interpreters for a plethora of retro platforms:
https://github.com/erkyrath/infocom-zcode-terps

 Tue Nov 21 18:58:16 +0000 2023

 Wed Nov 22 01:09:41 +0000 2023

I've rewatched the Envy segment of the 2nd episode at least a dozen times at this point.

 Wed Nov 22 01:56:15 +0000 2023

RT @arstechnica: Infocom’s ingenious code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found https://trib.al/lx4Opx8

 Wed Nov 22 02:30:10 +0000 2023

ED-209s for sure

 Wed Nov 22 03:30:21 +0000 2023

The only vintage interpreter source code that was available before was the CoCo code, uploaded 5 years ago. This is TWENTY different platforms.

 Wed Nov 22 12:23:19 +0000 2023

If it's the 90s we're talking about, those were all fan made interpreters. This is actual Infocom stuff.

 Wed Nov 22 12:39:43 +0000 2023

Right. So can you now see why this is a significant discovery?

 Wed Nov 22 12:52:03 +0000 2023

Your issue with the headline is imaginary. There was no source code available for an actual Infocom-developed interpreter until 2018.

 Wed Nov 22 13:05:01 +0000 2023

RT @IuriiMielkov: A rare PC version of the game "Asylum" (1982, a port from TRS-80), which is one of the first "3D" first-person adventures…

 Wed Nov 22 14:04:44 +0000 2023

They're unlikely to release it, but the game for leaked a few years ago. You can download & play it.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1246137912439246851?t=fDr9jYExIFhlXBzYuWce1w&s=19

 Wed Nov 22 14:08:48 +0000 2023

Tiny babby!

 Wed Nov 22 18:46:01 +0000 2023

Is it blasphemy to say that I enjoy Metric's cover of I Will Remember You from the Scott Pilgrim anime more than the original? 😅 Because I definitely do. It's just a shame that it's only half of the song.

 Wed Nov 22 19:48:34 +0000 2023

In fact, play that shit at my funeral! I'm sure a bunch of you here will outlive me, so remember this tweet.

 Wed Nov 22 19:49:34 +0000 2023

Vista for not that bad almost for the same reasons Me wasn't that bad. I say that as someone who ran Vista on multiple 24/7 machines for a decade

 Wed Nov 22 20:30:33 +0000 2023

RT @banditloaf: If you wanted to buy @GOGcom’s $5.99 Wing Commander I & II pack from Origin’s catalog in 1991 the total would’ve come to $3…

 Wed Nov 22 20:43:21 +0000 2023

So here we are more than 3 years later, and it still runs perfectly fine.

 Wed Nov 22 21:56:23 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: It's back!

 Wed Nov 22 22:05:41 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: You're out of TOUCH.MID
I'm out of time
But I'm out of my head when you're not around
🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Wed Nov 22 22:08:43 +0000 2023

Yes I do

 Wed Nov 22 22:22:36 +0000 2023

Yep

 Wed Nov 22 22:40:48 +0000 2023

YES! After so many years this Half-Life animation had been fixed!

 Thu Nov 23 00:27:43 +0000 2023

It wasn't broken in the original release, but I think got broken in one of the patches. And was always broken in the Steam release, obv.

 Thu Nov 23 01:03:45 +0000 2023

Glorious! 🎉

 Thu Nov 23 01:09:39 +0000 2023

Beats of Rage (Senile Team, 2003) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Nov 23 01:28:32 +0000 2023

https://youtu.be/4DTBaR_sjGc?si=oTH4-MLQVQPw9Lsh&t=341

 Thu Nov 23 01:46:32 +0000 2023

RT @POStudios: King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, 1990. Sierra On-Line.

 Thu Nov 23 01:57:43 +0000 2023

.... What? https://x.com/nintendolife/status/1726394933383192779

 Thu Nov 23 03:07:34 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Never forget what happened last Thanksgiving

 Thu Nov 23 14:20:23 +0000 2023

🦃

 Thu Nov 23 15:02:29 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!

 Thu Nov 23 15:26:31 +0000 2023

Well, I'm telling you about this, @Apogee_Ent. 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Nov 23 15:38:37 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: #Thanksgiving #DOSGaming

 Thu Nov 23 15:41:58 +0000 2023

"In Half-Life 2 we turned all that off because it's not very realistic" - Dario Casali
🤷‍♂️ https://x.com/iam8bit/status/1725616068461277276

 Thu Nov 23 16:06:07 +0000 2023

Yes, I've seen it.

 Thu Nov 23 16:09:53 +0000 2023

Did you know that Dario Casali had left Valve, and now has a YouTube channel where he plays Half-Life and his old Doom levels and provides commentary for them? Now you know.
https://www.youtube.com/@Dario.Casali/

 Thu Nov 23 16:11:09 +0000 2023

The original DOOM for DOS is over 4 and a half megs, and that's shareware. It's 14 and a half for registered.

 Thu Nov 23 16:46:21 +0000 2023

Well, I've just spent $2 on the current release of Doom, so I'll tell you in a minute.

 Thu Nov 23 16:50:44 +0000 2023

So, 100 megs is just the soundtrack which is not MIDI anymore, but OGG rendered with a Sound Canvas soundfont.

 Thu Nov 23 16:52:45 +0000 2023

56+ megs are the MP4 video files with logos and legal stuff.

 Thu Nov 23 16:53:17 +0000 2023

Menu, credits, fonts, and all that jazz is another 50+ megs.

 Thu Nov 23 16:54:22 +0000 2023

Looks like various Unity stuff and libraries is about 142 megs.

 Thu Nov 23 16:55:20 +0000 2023

Wait, no, sorry. 200 megs for Unity, libraries, and executables.

 Thu Nov 23 16:56:25 +0000 2023

Well, that's it. And the rest is the 12.7 meg Doom WAD. 😄

 Thu Nov 23 16:57:24 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Every time you go away
You take a piece of MIDI with you

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Nov 23 17:50:15 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Some holiday fun in several versions of Print Shop

 Thu Nov 23 20:19:43 +0000 2023

I mean, I'm almost sure that's *exactly* what's going to happen. If you told me 30 years ago that in the future a clean install of a Microsoft OS takes up TWENTY gigabytes, I would *not* have believed you under any circumstances.

 Fri Nov 24 00:04:50 +0000 2023

Time for leftovers.

 Fri Nov 24 15:45:00 +0000 2023

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1727068498197901568

 Fri Nov 24 17:07:21 +0000 2023

RT @DaveNadig: Not a bad find from a box in my moms attic. I miss feelies in videogames. Very different experience solving physical
Puzzl…

 Fri Nov 24 17:16:49 +0000 2023

RT @TexTweetz: #MODMasterXT #DOSGaming #IBMXT Mod Master XT by @FreddyVETELE

 Fri Nov 24 17:32:34 +0000 2023

We all do. But in a very loving way.

 Fri Nov 24 17:45:38 +0000 2023

RT @3DBigBoxGames: OK, folks.
Give it a try.
http://bigboxcollection.com

 Fri Nov 24 20:59:41 +0000 2023

RT @burgerbecky: Please help. https://gofund.me/664c238b

 Fri Nov 24 21:00:11 +0000 2023

Tell me where you were born using just one gif. https://x.com/ShawnDoubleA/status/1728164935144730870

 Fri Nov 24 22:36:50 +0000 2023

 Sat Nov 25 00:32:25 +0000 2023

 Sat Nov 25 00:45:07 +0000 2023

Oh, that's fucking HOT. 😯

 Sat Nov 25 00:54:02 +0000 2023

RT @XwingGameSeries: Training simulator in the original TIE Fighter (1994) and TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM (1995). Great upgrade!
Check…

 Sat Nov 25 01:05:17 +0000 2023

RT @TexTweetz: This is a thing… #DOSGaming #CGA

 Sat Nov 25 01:05:28 +0000 2023

Me when I'm right on the Internet:

 Sat Nov 25 02:00:22 +0000 2023

I always wanted to make one, and even started back in the day, but then quickly realized that I couldn't just translate an existing Russian one. Timing & text quantity needs to be different when subtitling a film in a different language. Maybe someday.

 Sat Nov 25 14:11:11 +0000 2023

RT @gnomeslair: Virtual Cities, my atlas and exploration of 45 classic video game cities, is currently very cheap on Amazon. Here: https://…

 Sat Nov 25 14:14:14 +0000 2023

Philanthropy and art collecting mostly.

 Sat Nov 25 16:19:56 +0000 2023

Put an orthodox file manager on your DOS machines.

 Sat Nov 25 16:49:33 +0000 2023

The "games" part is optional
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1487216435852201984?t=OeJHOAaF4r33RXmU5O11sA&s=19

 Sat Nov 25 17:13:22 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Me when I hear someone mention MS-DOS games 👀

 Sat Nov 25 17:17:57 +0000 2023

RT @coolgoblinzone: here's my latest article! in exactly 7000 words i wrote about the decay of virtual reality, an artistic canvas graduall…

 Sat Nov 25 18:40:10 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: What about the guy you lobotomized? Did he get a refund?

 Sat Nov 25 20:26:29 +0000 2023

Knight Force (Titus, 1989) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Nov 26 00:38:04 +0000 2023

RT @ChrisArt02: Remembering the classics.
FLASHBACK & ANOTHER WORLD
.
Art made with vectors.
.
#Flashback #AnotherWorld #MSDOS #MegaDrive #…

 Sun Nov 26 01:06:29 +0000 2023

It's not even 11 though

 Sun Nov 26 03:50:18 +0000 2023

RT @RocknRami: I nearly forgot, haven't been able to do anything big for the occassion and have no idea the exact date it released but Sier…

 Sun Nov 26 03:59:24 +0000 2023

RT @damgentemp: Sad to announce that a few days ago, Rick Gush aka Coco, passed away. He was the main writer for many Westwood games such a…

 Sun Nov 26 13:41:38 +0000 2023

RT @RocketFry: I'm still waiting to be asked to Validate my copy of Test Drive III. 😉 #msdos #dosgaming

 Sun Nov 26 15:02:55 +0000 2023

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: No, YOU are watching DOS gaming videos about X-Wing on Youtube at 2 am.

That's right, I'm a real catch. 😅

https://t.co/7…

 Sun Nov 26 15:04:44 +0000 2023

I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sun Nov 26 16:55:31 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/111477493171092415

 Sun Nov 26 16:55:48 +0000 2023

SCRNSAVE, the first ever (known) IBM PC screensaver.
Published by John Socha (of Norton Commander) in the December 1983 issue of the "Softalk for the IBM Personal Computer" magazine. Turns the screen off after 3 minutes of inactivity.

 Sun Nov 26 17:19:11 +0000 2023

Interestingly, while ASM code listing is provided, along with it there's also a Basic program that generates a COM file from numerical values with a simple error check for those without an assembler. Very nice.

 Sun Nov 26 17:21:34 +0000 2023

Yes. I always hated that shit.

 Sun Nov 26 17:21:50 +0000 2023

It is (was?) considered both the first ever screen saver, and the use of the term "screen saver". But apparently Apple Lisa had a screen saver mode before this (someone please confirm or deny this), and the actual words "screen saver" don't appear in Socha's article.

 Sun Nov 26 17:28:45 +0000 2023

Those were the days

 Sun Nov 26 17:49:07 +0000 2023

We're getting closer and closer to the day when The Dark Eye becomes fully playable on pretty much every platform. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1657525910730317831

 Sun Nov 26 20:04:44 +0000 2023

Every once in a while I remember that the Windows 3.x first person shooter "Bad Toys 3D" from 1995 is still being sold for $9.95:
https://www.tibosoftware.com/bad-toys.htm

 Sun Nov 26 21:53:23 +0000 2023

Wow.

 Sun Nov 26 22:04:36 +0000 2023

When was the last time a game installer asked you to do this?

 Sun Nov 26 22:06:05 +0000 2023

Doggo!

 Sun Nov 26 22:07:52 +0000 2023

I can't tell you because I have OtVDM installed, and it just runs. The installer is 32 bit, but the program itself is seemingly 16 bit. Try to run the shareware version, it's free on the website.

 Sun Nov 26 22:20:47 +0000 2023

It's a WinG library sample program. But yes, it would draw a sprite where you clicked without erasing previous image.

 Sun Nov 26 22:24:32 +0000 2023

Nope

 Sun Nov 26 23:51:25 +0000 2023

Ok, so apparently the bug is in the original shipped version of the game. It's OS dependent for some reason. Breaks on Windows 2000 and up. I must have originally played on 98, so I've never noticed it until I finally switched to XP in 2004.

 Mon Nov 27 00:05:30 +0000 2023

EGA version also changes the sky's palette throughout the game.

 Mon Nov 27 00:20:21 +0000 2023

It's meat to be sunset. It begins with the sun still visible, but ends with just a blue sky.

 Mon Nov 27 00:22:52 +0000 2023

You can see that the palette is special if you look at the game's resources.

 Mon Nov 27 00:27:22 +0000 2023

Switch? They won't even port it to 32-bit Windows! 😂

 Mon Nov 27 08:08:07 +0000 2023

Auto generated eBay listings are a thing now, I guess? 🤷

 Mon Nov 27 15:53:56 +0000 2023

You mean to tell me you called your game "Commandos," but I can't run it from COMMAND in DOS? 🤔

 Mon Nov 27 16:11:09 +0000 2023

Not me

 Mon Nov 27 16:37:06 +0000 2023

I would argue Norton software was still pretty great even after the Symantec buyout for quite a few years.

 Mon Nov 27 17:25:28 +0000 2023

Jesus is watching your #DOSGaming activities. 🙏 https://x.com/damgentemp/status/1596081330361892866

 Mon Nov 27 17:29:44 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: I don't have a Soundcloud, but I do have this picture saved on my phone

 Mon Nov 27 17:42:44 +0000 2023

Oh god, please, no. Why must one of the best genre director's creativity die in such a horrible way? 😨 https://x.com/screentime/status/1728557295909601532

 Mon Nov 27 17:59:57 +0000 2023

This kind of fun just isn't allowed in Marvel movies. Please, set Sam free!
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1579657223898337280?t=z46-Z33bRNNWc8lmz9FYow&s=19

 Mon Nov 27 18:00:59 +0000 2023

Mia Wallace is watching your #DOSGaming activities. 🚬

 Mon Nov 27 18:12:30 +0000 2023

I can also run it in Windows just as easily.

 Mon Nov 27 18:45:14 +0000 2023

I like to wistfully reminisce about Mattel's 2018 sequel to the beloved family card game Uno. https://x.com/lokymann/status/1723413744422658464

 Mon Nov 27 20:30:13 +0000 2023

And now explain your password!

 Mon Nov 27 20:35:30 +0000 2023

 Mon Nov 27 20:57:54 +0000 2023

В 90-е на западе это был просто тренд

 Mon Nov 27 22:15:18 +0000 2023

Почти каждая в игровых журналах

 Mon Nov 27 22:31:00 +0000 2023

In game the activation window still says $18.99, so it's a MAJOR discount.

 Mon Nov 27 22:53:18 +0000 2023

Hello, new followers. 👋 My name is Anatoly, and I
- like DOS games. A lot.
- am a fan of tweeting things only 10 people would understand.
- swear like a sailor.
- am not a cat, sadly.

 Mon Nov 27 22:56:08 +0000 2023

DOS Games End of Year Jam 2023 is live!
https://itch.io/jam/dos-games-end-of-year-jam-2023

 Tue Nov 28 00:13:09 +0000 2023

Oh, you're German and some computer games are banned there, and you can't even legally mention their titles when selling stuff for these games? Not a problem!

 Tue Nov 28 00:29:58 +0000 2023

"Rise of the T***d" is fucking killing me.

 Tue Nov 28 00:32:25 +0000 2023

I play Rise of the Tired every day right before going to work.

 Tue Nov 28 00:35:50 +0000 2023

That's a possibility. 🤷

 Tue Nov 28 01:03:33 +0000 2023

It wasn't manipulation. IBM was practically giving stuff away at the time because they just come out of a giant anti-monopoly lawsuit. And at the time nobody knew that a small company (Compaq) was gonna take IBM on & win, & Gates' great deal would turn into BEST deal of all time.

 Tue Nov 28 02:38:54 +0000 2023

Norton Commander

 Tue Nov 28 10:41:25 +0000 2023

 Tue Nov 28 15:35:48 +0000 2023

It's Jim Walls.

 Tue Nov 28 15:45:53 +0000 2023

No. This is what Daryl Gates looks like

 Tue Nov 28 15:48:32 +0000 2023

This was a simple electrical chain plugged into a 220v outlet. When I was a kid ours broke, so I opened it up. A lamp contact plates were bent, & I tried to bend them back forgetting the star was still plugged in. I grabbed each w/ each hand, & competed the circuit with my body🤷 https://x.com/sovietvisuals/status/1729537930048208961

 Tue Nov 28 16:40:57 +0000 2023

After a few moments of a feeling I will never forget a breaker blew. I got away with a scare & cinged fingertips. If it lasted a few moments longer I probably wouldn't be here today to talk about DOS games and stuff.

 Tue Nov 28 16:46:18 +0000 2023

Why did nobody ever make a Total Recall-themed stress toy? It's like a perfect match.

 Tue Nov 28 17:40:49 +0000 2023

I didn't let go. I couldn't. The power went out, thankfully.

 Tue Nov 28 18:23:26 +0000 2023

 Tue Nov 28 18:24:19 +0000 2023

That's the one from *real life*.

 Tue Nov 28 18:25:03 +0000 2023

Ew

 Tue Nov 28 18:25:51 +0000 2023

RT @evercaderetro: OUT NOW! New Evercade carts have released today! Duke Nukem Collections 1 & 2 and the newest pair of Dual Carts - Goodbo…

 Tue Nov 28 19:59:16 +0000 2023

It's on the Archive
https://archive.org/details/violence-in-3-d

 Tue Nov 28 21:08:59 +0000 2023

Dark Forces isn't the full name of the game. It potentially could be any old dark forces.

 Tue Nov 28 21:21:35 +0000 2023

Yikes. I assume a PS/2 keyboard?

 Tue Nov 28 22:18:33 +0000 2023

I think there was something wrong with your PC. Maybe something loose inside was touching something else, & the current was traveling through the kb, but couldn't find ground. Did the keyboard have a metal plate on the bottom? If it did, most likely your body grounded it on touch

 Tue Nov 28 22:33:54 +0000 2023

Electrical stuff isn't my thing though, so you might wanna see other options. I'm mostly just guessing.

 Tue Nov 28 22:34:56 +0000 2023

If Home Alone is a Christmas movie, then so is Die Hard. 🎄

 Wed Nov 29 00:05:58 +0000 2023

Must have been a slow gaming news day. Somehow this silly tweet was turned into an entire article.
https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-buy-this-forgotten-90s-shooter-from-its-original-website-which-is-a-perfectly-preserved-time-capsule-of-pc-gamings-golden-age/ https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1728894745450361026

 Wed Nov 29 00:32:42 +0000 2023

Hey now

 Wed Nov 29 02:19:41 +0000 2023

RT @FreddyVETELE: #PicoMEM 1.1 in action
Seems to work.

 Wed Nov 29 13:14:41 +0000 2023

I sure hope it's not an Xbox exclusive https://x.com/Wario64/status/1729661047878070315

 Wed Nov 29 13:58:38 +0000 2023

RT @mikko: @dosnostalgic
Google Groups has archives of MS-DOS discussions from 30 years ago, including this code snippet I posted in Decem…

 Wed Nov 29 15:52:44 +0000 2023

RT @dubesinhower: Did you use a Windows 95/ 98 computer when you were growing up? And if so, do you remember using MS-DOS?

 Wed Nov 29 16:06:09 +0000 2023

RT @damgentemp: In January 1991 this "impossible invention" promised to transform all of your 720KB floppies into 1.44MB ones. Basically, i…

 Wed Nov 29 17:55:12 +0000 2023

Same as it ever DOS

 Wed Nov 29 17:56:25 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Quite obviously the best way to play Half-Life is via a DOOM wad.

 Wed Nov 29 21:27:20 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Half-Life ZDoom (2007).
The author, Jeremy A. Stepp, passed away the same year, leaving this mod unfinished. https://t.co…

 Wed Nov 29 22:06:04 +0000 2023

It does feel great, but imo the best survival horror games don't have that. Very few are even bold enough to not give you any weapons. True survival and true horror.

 Wed Nov 29 23:41:46 +0000 2023

 Wed Nov 29 23:43:26 +0000 2023

RT @dantemendes: IBM Personal Computer XT (shortened to PC-XT, Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz). Found in school labs, with monochrome monitor and sp…

 Thu Nov 30 00:09:54 +0000 2023

🎉🍾🥂🎈🥳👋

 Thu Nov 30 02:59:38 +0000 2023

I'll be honest. Didn't expect that extracting video from a PlayStation 1 disc would be so difficult in the year of our lord 2023.

 Thu Nov 30 03:20:04 +0000 2023

 Thu Nov 30 03:23:14 +0000 2023

RT @arstechnica: My long quest to revive a ’90s Windows gaming cult classic https://trib.al/De3hStv

 Thu Nov 30 12:30:49 +0000 2023

ᵐᵉᵒʷ

 Thu Nov 30 12:49:48 +0000 2023

RT @Civvie11: On today's episode we FIGHT FOR THE FRONT AND FREEDOM! MOVE OUT!

https://youtu.be/UX3K6WNaL1M

#FreeCivvie #Retrogaming #FPS

 Thu Nov 30 15:31:32 +0000 2023

Remember the 2003 "Extreme" DVD edition of Terminator 2: Judgement Day that came with a 720p HD version of the theatrical cut in a protected WMV9 format that is now completely useless?

 Thu Nov 30 15:51:44 +0000 2023

Not the last time I checked, but it's been a while, and that could have changed since.

 Thu Nov 30 15:54:29 +0000 2023

Well, apparently the encryption has been broken, so HERE I COME, BABY!!!

 Thu Nov 30 16:03:36 +0000 2023

Or maybe not. 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Nov 30 16:07:59 +0000 2023

I played it on my budget Dell PC in 2004 fairly fine. It would occasionally go out of sync, but nothing a quick click on the timeline wouldn't help.

 Thu Nov 30 16:10:16 +0000 2023

isodump to extract the file from the disc image, and jPSXdec to dump the video into an uncompressed AVI, but clearly the extract file was still corrupted as it cut off the end. But it's the best I could do after 40(!!!) minutes of going through a dozen other programs.

 Thu Nov 30 16:11:55 +0000 2023

Was the Van Ling blu-ray the one with the same master, but just DNRed to death? Fucking hated that one.

 Thu Nov 30 16:14:58 +0000 2023

It's 6.8 gigs of 720p video. It was the better than anything else you could get at the time.

 Thu Nov 30 16:16:28 +0000 2023

I must have skipped that one. But Skynet editon also has the Van Ling logo on it.

 Thu Nov 30 16:17:22 +0000 2023

Bad Toys (Windows 3.x, 1995) #NotDOS
First, black & white version of the Czech shareware Windows first person shooter.

 Thu Nov 30 17:25:48 +0000 2023

Like, a music CD?

 Thu Nov 30 18:16:02 +0000 2023

Does it play in a regular CD player? If yes, then surely there's a away to avoid installing a rootkit DRM on a modern system.

 Thu Nov 30 18:39:41 +0000 2023

RT @ClickHole: Nostalgia Overload: Today’s Throwback Google Doodle Shows A Guy In 2013 Getting Usable Results From His Google Search https:…

 Thu Nov 30 21:13:21 +0000 2023

RT @GameResearch_E: Five years ago, I released my oral history on Thief: The Dark Project.

https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/thief-the-dark-project-20th-anniversary-oral-history/

This was a massive und…

 Fri Dec 01 01:57:21 +0000 2023

Well, this texture looks familiar. 🤔 Let's call it a "tribute". 🤷‍♂️

 Fri Dec 01 02:33:18 +0000 2023

VLC doesn't support DRMed WMVs.

 Fri Dec 01 02:57:18 +0000 2023